Thursday, May 31, 2007

Creating a look

I want a look, a look that exemplifies me, not the latest fashion. I don't achieve anything that comes close to a look most days.

My closet is the closet of a schizophrenic. Voile skirts next to a straight black skirt and overalls.

So, people if you could dress me, dress me as my personality and if you possible my short body, what would it be?

10 comments:

aola said...

You are a multi-faceted woman - in my minds eye I see you in the kicky, floaty skirt and spaghetti strap top, but I also see you in the overalls on the brush hog or in the black skirts teaching literature.....

so, I am no help what-so-ever.

E. Michelle said...

hmm- i have to ask you first: what are your favorite three features about yourself, physically?

E. Michelle said...

Mine are: cause i am going to do this with you-
in no order: lower legs, hair, eyebrows, mouth. i had four answers!

R said...

this make me thinks:
smile, waist, my hands.

I keep wanting to put things down like my walk, but that's not a physical feature is it?

E. Michelle said...

Actually, becky, saying your walk still helps me imagine what it feels like to be in your own skin.

now, time period you would live in if you had to choose another and
actress you like the best, fashion wise, especially if that style is represented in a particular role.
or country you fantasize about, or designers you love.

answer at least two of those questions please!
E

E. Michelle said...

For me:

I like Oscar de Le Renta, Erin Featherston

i'd be Anne of GG's contemporary in PEI

I fantasize about dressing to the nines, very femininely, in Rome

I LOVE gwyneth paltrow in Sylvia and Talented Mr. Ripley--fashion from the fifties i think, though sylvia is more about school-girl fashion which i LOVE. again, there is anne in that too!

I think that: definitely i take interest in plaid skirts: a look for academia.
i think Anne is smart but also wholesome. as in Gwyneth's character in Talented, she is very clean looking, and also very feminine: skirts with white blouses with a defined waist.

Oscar de la renta and erin featherston represent, for me, an easy set of clues: i am a traditionalist developing a taste for whimsy.

and back to Rome, always, I like dressing up sometimes. where others fantasized about Vera Wand dresses, i love the theatricality of Reem Arca. oh, LORD- i love Elizabethan stuff.

E. Michelle said...

Fetherston, no A

Sandra said...

I can't even dress myself! :) My best advice is to listen to E. or Kristen. :)

R said...

erica -- you are so about the process -- this is more wonderful than you can imagine.

time period - twenties, the French revolution if I was childless, or London in the 1600s.

Actresses - Jodi Foster/Merle Streep/Reese Witherspoon/Katherine Hepburn -- how's that for range

I am an ignoramus when it comes to designers.

E. Michelle said...

Which roles for those actreses?